Welcome to this Art Exhibition of Portrait Miniatures

Welcome!
In a user friendly format, this website blog displays a private art collection of miniature portraits with research notes about miniatures, as well as the artists and sitters. The collection should appeal to art lovers, family historians, and fashion historians who can study hairstyles and clothing changing over the centuries. The 2008 Additions and Comment section includes market place information and general comment. A kind visitor has emailed; "It is definitely the best online art website that I have found yet."

If necessary, please wait a few moments for the Slideshow Previews to appear (hopefully! - some browsers may have problems) then click to open. They show samples of miniatures in the collection; painted on the left by American artists, and on the right by British and European artists. More detail about the portraits in the slideshows is included in the various Galleries, which are reached via the blue hyperlinks.


The collection focus is mainly on American portraits, but British and European miniatures are included. All are displayed as in a "live" exhibition, with many separate Galleries. The exhibition is organised as:

1 Introduction to Miniatures
2 Copy, Fake, and Decorative Miniatures
3 Miniatures and the Photograph
4 Focus of the Collection
5 Recent Additions and Comment
6 Guest Gallery
7 History of the Collection
8 Highlights
9 American Galleries
10 British Galleries
11 European Galleries
12 Art Collecting Links
13 Bibliography

Click on the blue links above for more detail, or the blue links on the right under Gallery Links, for recent Additions and Comment, as well as images of miniatures from America, Britain, and Europe. Alternatively, use the Site Search box to search for artists, sitters, or key words.

Most of the 2008 posts can be seen consecutively in 2008 Additions and Comment but items of particular interest can be selected from the list below.

May - New and recent literature on miniatures - View
May - Twenty years on the trail of William Douglas - View
May - Research and literature - View
May - American additions to the collection - View
Special Report May 08 - The Speed Family and Abraham Lincoln - View
May - New Research and trivia - View
April - New dictionary of French miniature painters - View
April - The American market place - View
April - Une Collection Francaise - View Blog
April - Additions to the collection - View
April - Market place and other things - View
April - Miniature portrait of Benjamin West - View
April - Fakes and decorative miniatures - View
Special Report Apr 08 - Family at War, the von Cramon Portraits - View
March - Miscellany and more on museums - View
March - Additions to the collection - View
March - Market place - View
Special Report Mar 08 - Exhibition of eBay Boycott Art - View
February - Additions to the collection - View
Special Report Feb 08 - Close the museum doors! - View
February - Stolen miniature portraits - View
February - Harriet Josephine Turner - View
February - Market place - View
January - Blue eyes, record price, - View
January - A forgotten family story - View
January - Additions to the collection - View
Special Report Jan 08 - The case of Walter Robertson - View

(Please note that Copyright for all portraits remains with the Owner, but images may be copied for private or educational research with an appropriate credit or an Internet link to this website. Clicking on About Me should bring up an email link.)